The "mayor's brake" is retired

Created: 01/21/2022, 07:28

Retiring: Mayor Manfred Betzin (left) and former mayor Schnell (right) with Alois Kopold.

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Jetzendorf – The treasurer of the community of Jetzendorf, Alois Kopold, is retiring at the end of this month.

Therefore, the municipal council gave him a fitting farewell on Tuesday evening, one day before his 64th birthday.

Kopold, who has lived in Schrobenhausen since childhood, initially worked in the pension office in Munich for eight years. On May 1, 1981, he began his service in the Jetzendorf town hall. No one else in municipal administration has gone through so many professional areas of administrative work in more than 40 years. Whether consumer fee billing, contributions, trade tax, development issues, property management, pension advice, regulatory office, building authority or cash register - Kopold has gained experience everywhere, you could get good and well-founded advice from him everywhere. Kopold is very popular with colleagues and employees as well as with the general public because of his calm, reliable and helpful nature.

Today's treasurer has carried out his work very conscientiously over the decades to the complete satisfaction of the mayors Josef Wallner (until 1990) and Richard Schnell (until 2014) and most recently Manfred Betzin. In 1988, i.e. 32 years ago, he took over the duties of taking the minutes at around 500 municipal council meetings. At times he was even a registrar.

When executive officer Richard Linke retired in 2016, Kopold was eventually given the post of chamberlain. As a senior civil servant, it was his main task year after year to ensure a balanced community budget. "He is an absolute phenomenon when it comes to writing down and has always had our community's budget under control, he was the mayor's brake, a smart saver that every community needs," said community leader Manfred Betzin in his laudatory speech. Then the mayor retired the magistrate with a certificate to thunderous applause.

Words of praise and thanks were also expressed by former mayor and honorary citizen Richard Schnell, who, for the first time after leaving municipal politics almost eight years ago, came to honor Kopold in the meeting room and stated: "There was no one better than you".

Kopold was one of the first to be able to use a computer, with a certain mischievousness behind his ears.

Betzin also confirmed this with reference to over 3000 Excel spreadsheets that Kopold had created.

The "iron bachelor" likes to cycle a lot in his free time, but he also loves fast cars.

Klaus Burgstaller is his successor as chamberlain in the town hall.

Since mid-November, Kopold has been using his remaining vacation time and the numerous hours of overtime.

Nevertheless, he was allowed to move into the new town hall, at least for a short time.

The municipality as an employer, the municipal council and the colleagues said farewell to Alois Kopold with gifts.

The former deputy mayor Franz Off also showed how well it was possible to work with the resigner for decades.

"I am pleased that my work is being recognized," Kopold summed up succinctly.

He revealed to the Dachauer Nachrichten what he particularly loved about his job at the municipality of Jetzendorf and what he didn't enjoy so much.

His conclusion: “Looking back, I can say that there was actually no job that I didn’t enjoy doing.

What appealed to me most, however, was the work in the cash register and the finance department, the preparation and monitoring of the meetings and all tasks involving the public.

The phone calls to the hotlines of the telephone and electricity suppliers, which have become increasingly necessary in recent times, were not my thing”.